Jerome, Vita Malchi

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This volume offers a full analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of Late Antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c.347-419/20AD). The neglected text of the Vita Malchi - or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive Monk - recounts the experiences of Malchus, a monk abducted by nomadic Saracens on the Eastern fringe of the fourth-century Roman Empire, in what today is the border region between southern Turkey and Syria. Most of this short, vivid, and fast-paced narrative is recounted by Malchus in the first person. The volume's introduction provides background information on the author, Jerome, and the historical and linguistic context of the Life, as well as detailed discussion of the work's style and its reception of earlier Christian and classical literature, ranging from its relationship with comedy, epic, and the ancient novel to the Apocryphal Apostolic Acts and martyr narratives. An exposition of the manuscript evidence is then followed by a new edition of the Latin text with an English translation, and a comprehensive commentary. The commentary explores the complex intertextuality of the work and provides readers with an understanding of its background, originality, and significance; it elucidates not only literary and philological questions but also points of ethnography and topography, and intellectual and social history.8. ouis quae de ouili egreditur lupi statim morsibus patet: this phrase can be
associated with specifically Christian imagery ... a sheep is jealous ofthe ample
meals given to the guard dog; the dog in turn points out that ifit was not for him,
the sheep would be exposed to the wolf. ... The proverbial a#39;lost sheepa#39; is equally
at home in biblical moralizing: Ps. 118:176 erraui quasi ouis perdita (cf. note on
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Jerome, Vita Malchi

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Christa Gray

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Oxford University Press, USA - 2015-02-26

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